Teachers protest No Child Left Behind
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Teachers march past the White House and a rally against Syrian President Bashar Assad during their protest against standardized testing.
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Washington --
There are many reasons thousands of teachers traveled across the country to protest in front of the White House on Saturday - including to oppose charter schools, to fight for equal funding for poor schools and to have more say in public education policies.
But at a noisy, sweltering rally, their message boiled down to one point, which was summed up by the sound check before the first speaker took the stage: Tap. Tap. "No testing, no
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